What we're building, in the open
Lightstead is built with the families who use it. Here's what's shipping next — and inside the app, your household can vote for what we build first.
Vote in the app →In progress
Actively in development.
Home screen widgets
At-a-glance widgets for your home screen — today's calendar, the meal plan, and chore status. iOS and Android.
Live family location
See where everyone is on a shared map, with strict consent and quiet hours.
Planned
Committed and queued.
Budget
Envelope-style household budgeting — fund categories, track spending, and see where the money goes.
Cross-course grade reconciliation
One view of the whole academic year with grades reconciled across courses.
Full weighted gradebook
Grade categories with weights per subject (Homework 40%, Exams 50%…) — assignments roll up into a weighted subject grade and transcript GPA.
Calendar event notifications
Get a heads-up before an event starts — push reminders for what's on the calendar.
Notifications settings screen
Turn each push and email on or off, with quiet hours.
Full journal parity
Everything the web journal can do, on every device — collections, tables, and the rest.
Exploring
Ideas we're weighing — vote in the app to push them up.
AI Daily Brief
A short morning summary of the day ahead — events, chores, and what needs you.
Snap a document into your journal
Photograph a permission slip or letter and have the details pre-filled for you.
Health profiles & medications
Blood type, allergies, and conditions for each family member — plus which medication is due when.
Snacks in the meal planner
Plan snacks between meals, not just breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Household food inventory
Keep track of what food is actually in the house.
Shipped
Out and in your hands.
Add your whole family in one step
Kids and your co-parent now live on one setup screen, with each child's photo and colour chosen before they exist.
A photo on every chore
Put a picture on a chore so a child who cannot read yet can still find their own.
Set the exact time a chore is due
Morning, afternoon and evening are still one tap — now you can also name the hour.
A daily nudge when chores are due
One notification a day on your phone telling you how many chores are waiting — and nothing on the days there are none.
A nudge if your board is still empty
Added your family but no chores yet? One reminder, once, and never again.
The price you signed up at is the price you keep
If our pricing changes later, households paying by card keep the price they joined on.
Edit and Delete ask for your PIN in Family Mode
With a child's profile open on a shared device, a parent can still edit or delete an event — the app asks for your PIN rather than hiding the buttons.
A recipe import survives leaving the Library
Paste a recipe link, get called away, come back — your import is waiting, with every edit you had made.
Nursery
Baby tracking for the whole household — feeds, sleep, nappies, and growth, logged by whoever is holding the baby.
Updates on every roadmap item
See when work actually starts on something you asked for — each item now keeps a running log of its progress.
Change your household name and timezone any time
Settings opens with your household details, and both are editable.
The same colors for people and calendars
Choose from the same 35 colors when setting a profile accent or organizing a family calendar.
See how the whole family is doing
Family Standings brings everyone’s chore progress together on web, phone, and tablet.
Reconnect the right parent profile
Safely reconnect your sign-in to the correct parent profile when two parent identities get crossed.
Pick up where you left off
Recipe drafts, cooking sessions, and active chores recover after an interruption instead of losing your place.
A calmer Cook Mode
Cook step by step with ingredients beside you, saved progress, clearer controls, and a screen that stays awake.
Google Calendar controls, right in Calendar
Connect accounts, choose synced calendars, manage visibility, and run a sync from the mobile Calendar.
Events and chores in This Week
Switch the whole week between Events and Chores, with the real items for every day shaping the Arc and its agenda.
A continuous Daily Entry timeline
Move through recent journal days — including blank ones — and write without leaving the timeline.
Smarter Kitchen Table Auto-fill
Use your recipe tags and choose exactly which meals to fill — breakfast, lunch, dinner, or any combination.
A roomier calendar
Day, Week, and Month moved to a bottom bar so more of your day fits on screen.
Meals on the day view
A compact card on the calendar's Day view showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner — swipe between them.
School Year — plan years, terms & breaks
Set your academic year, terms, and breaks — and Lightstead tracks your instructional days, pace, and where you are in the year.
Recurring chore rules on mobile
Create and manage recurring chores from your phone — daily, weekly, monthly, or a custom every-N schedule — with rotation, rewards, and per-rule history.
Turn modules on and off for your household
Pick exactly the modules your family uses — Calendar, Chore Board, Projects & Honey-dos, Kitchen Table, Recipes, Economy and more — and turn the rest off, on web and on your phone.
Type any point amount when adjusting
Adjusting a child's points? Tap the number and type the exact amount instead of pressing +/− over and over.
A faster app drawer
Pin your most-used screens to the top and reach everything else in a tidy, color-coded grid — your drawer, your order.
Projects & Honey-dos on mobile
Plan bigger projects and honey-dos from your phone — not just chores — with due dates, priority, and approvals.
Full meal planning, breakfast to dinner
Plan every meal in the new Kitchen Table — breakfast, lunch, and dinner, each with a main and sides, flowing straight into your grocery list.
Your nav bar tracks the time of day
The time-of-day light grew up and moved into your top bar — a sun travels the horizon as the day passes, a crescent and stars take over at night, on every screen.
Reset a forgotten Family-Mode PIN
Forgot your parent PIN? Re-verify it's you and set a new one — no more being locked out.
The Week, as a calm Arc
Your week is now a flowing arc of your family's rhythm — see today, what's ahead, and tap to set the week's focus.
Calendar conflict detection
A heads-up when two events overlap for the same person.
“What’s New” patch-notes modal
A release modal (web + mobile) showing what shipped and what's fixed each update — with the items you followed glowing gold. Dismiss once; reopen anytime from the roadmap.
Plan any dinner — recipe or not
Drop "taco night" or "leftovers" onto any day without needing a saved recipe.
Formation, smoother on mobile
A nicer date picker and inline editing for consequences on mobile.
In-app roadmap & voting
See what's planned, in progress, and just shipped — and vote for what your household wants next.
Grocery in-store mode
A locked-dark, aisle-by-aisle shopping view that auto-advances as you check items off.
Journal writing on mobile
Capture daily pages and collections from your phone, not just the web app.
Economy money-path hardening
Allowances, points, and rewards now post atomically and can't double-credit.